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Marvin Chochotte: slavery, revolutions, freedom, political violence against Black African descendants in the Americas, Haiti.
Feng Fu: game theory and AI, human behavior, evolutionary dynamics, health data science
Saeed Hassanpour: biomedical informatics, machine learning, AI for healthcare, medical imaging, digital pathology
SouYoung Jin: video understanding, computer vision, machine learning, multimodal learning, cognitive science
Sarah Masud Preum: human-AI interaction, computational health, data science, natural language processing, conversational assistants, deep learning
Dan Rockmore: complex systems, machine learning, networks, computational harmonic analysis
Soroush Vosoughi: social media analytics, machine learning, social cybersecurity, artificial intelligence
Yujun Yan: machine learning, graph/data mining, graph neural networks, interpretable machine learning, program understanding and synthesis
Yaoqing Yang: machine learning, 3D point clouds, statistical physics, loss landscape, neural-network weight analysis, information theory, coded computing
Sunmin Kim: race, immigration, minority politics, public opinion, policy preferences of Asian Americans, historical sociology
Eng-Beng Lim: Asian American studies; postcolonial/diaspora studies; ethnic studies; activism; diversity, equity, and inclusion
Emily Walton: race and place; residential experiences and health among multiple racial and ethnic groups, segregation, ethnic neighborhoods
Caroline Robertson: sensory perception and cognition in autism, Dartmouth Autism Research Initiative, early detection of autism
Tillman Gerngross: protein engineering; metabolic engineering; protein expression
Matthew F. Delmont: African-American history, U.S. history, Black Lives Matter, civil rights, school desegregation, television, popular culture, media
Jacob Borodovsky: expert on cannabis; novel cannabis products and administration methods; factors leading to drug use; relationship between cannabis and mental health; survey-based measurement of substance use; effects of cannabis legalization and regulation on patterns of consumption; Cannabis Regulatory Science; risk behavior among adolescents; addiction, epidemiology and policy.
Alan Budney: expert on cannabis; consequences, prevention and intervention of use; treatments for misuse and Cannabis Use Disorder; laws and regulatory science; cannabis and mental health; pharmacology and therapeutics; social determinants of cannabis use and consequences; gender and sex differences in use; quantifying and measuring consumption; vaping, edibles, and other methods of consumption; adolescents and young adult use and consequences; impact of strain potency and dosage.
Timothy Gardner, MD: expert on cannabis and pain management for acute and chronic pancreatitis; medical cannabis; pancreatic cancer; pancreatic disease and liver disease; medical education.
Robert Hawley: Antarctica, Greenland, ice sheets, glaciers, snow, geophysics
Caitlin Hicks Pries: ecosystem ecology, biogeochemistry, soil ecology, and climate change
Meredith Kelly: climate change, glacial geologic studies, geomorphology
Kathryn Cottingham: impacts of climate change and effects of land-use change on lakes, cyanobacteria blooms and toxins in freshwater lakes
Justin S. Mankin: climate impacts on people and ecosystems, extreme weather and climate, climate modeling, drought and ecohydrology
Mathieu Morlighem: Expert on Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets; sea-level rise; ice sheets and climate change; ice-ocean interactions; ice sheet numerical modeling.
Erich Osterberg: paleoclimatology, climate change, atmospheric chemistry, snow and ice chemistry
Laura Paulin, MD: pulmonary and critical care medicine, air quality, humidity and excessive heat, environmental and occupational exposure to air pollution, asthma and COPD
Donald Perovich: sea ice geophysics; the interaction of sunlight with ice and snow; the Arctic system and climate change
Ross Virginia: Polar policy and environmental issues, ecosystem ecology, soil biogeochemical cycling, climate change in polar systems
Jonathan Winter: climate variability and change, climate impacts on water resources and agriculture, global climate model projections, hydroclimate
Lisa V. Adams: healthcare and COVID-19
Elizabeth A. Carpenter-Song: health equity in rural health New England
Elliott Fisher: geography/U.S. mapping of the COVID-19 pandemic
Herschel Nachlis: Food and Drug Administration (FDA), vaccine regulation, public policy, health policy and politics
Christopher Snyder: economics of developing vaccines
Anne N. Sosin: health equity in rural health New England
Elizabeth A. Talbot: infectious disease, travel medicine, international health
Devin Singh: religion and the history of money, the digitization of cash, cryptocurrency, religion and economics, sociology of markets and money, credit and debit in the West
David F. Kotz: mobile healthcare (mHealth) technology, security and privacy, wireless networks
Alexis Abramson: building energy efficiency; sustainable energy technology; data analytics applied to energy applications
Elizabeth J. Wilson: energy and environmental policy, climate change, public perception of emerging technologies, regulatory and legal analysis of emerging technologies
Brendan Nyhan: misperceptions and conspiracy theories, the science of fake news, political communication and the media, political scandal and corruption
Andrew Levin: The Federal Reserve, the International Monetary Fund, monetary policy
Celia Chen: accumulation and presence of PFAS ("forever chemicals") in the environment, contamination of the aquatic food web (marine, estuarine and freshwater), concentrations in freshwater and marine fish and invertebrates, PFAS distribution in the water column and interactions with organic carbon, mercury and other metal contaminants in aquatic food webs
Kathryn Cottingham: arsenic in food and water, mercury in freshwater ecosystems, algae, cyanobacteria blooms and toxins in freshwater lakes
Megan Romano: exposure to environmental endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) and effect on pregnancy, infant hormones, breastfeeding and feeding behavior, and early life physical growth; effects of PFAS on human health; PFAS contamination in drinking water and New England communities; effects of other EDCs such as bisphenol A, phthalates, parabens, and flame retardants on maternal and child health.
Lisa V. Adams: healthcare and COVID-19
Elliott Fisher: geography/U.S. mapping of the COVID-19 pandemic
Feng Fu: mathematical biology, applied math, infectious diseases, cancer, evolutionary theory
James Geiling, MD: critical care in resource-poor settings, disaster medicine, disaster preparedness and response, challenges to rescue and recovery, veterans’ health care
Elizabeth A. Talbot: infectious disease, travel medicine, international health
Jorge Cuéllar: Central American politics, race, culture, migration, social movements, U.S. and Central America
Annelise Orleck: ethnicity and immigration in American history, women in politics, history of women’s rights, workplace equality
Ethan Lewis: immigration, how immigration benefits U.S.-born workers, technological change, U.S. public education
Emily Walton: race and place, residential experiences and health among multiple racial and ethnic groups, segregation, ethnic neighborhoods
Richard A. Wright: U.S. immigration, migration, race and racism in labor and housing markets
Andrew Levin: Inflation, macroeconomics, monetary policy, the Federal Reserve, the International Monetary Fund
Matthew Ayres: insect ecology, bark beetles, emerald ash borer, Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths), mosquitoes, forest ecology, seasonal cycles, invasive-species ecology, climate change and pests
Annelise Orleck: ethnicity and immigration in American history, women in politics, history of women’s rights, workplace equality
Kristin E. Smith: gender inequality, employment and earnings, and work and family policy
Eng-Beng Lim: queer/transnational studies; queer pop culture; LGBTQIA issues; Asian American studies; ethnic studies; activism; diversity, equity, and inclusion
John (“Jack”) H. Turco: endocrinology, transgender care, sports medicine
David Kotz: mobile healthcare technology, security and privacy, wireless networks, smart home technology
Temiloluwa Prioleau: data science for health, mobile/wearable technology for healthcare
Nicholas Miller: U.S. relations with North Korea, Iran and Saudi Arabia, and their nuclear capabilities; nuclear proliferation; international security; U.S. foreign policy
Udi Greenberg: European responses to the Russia – Ukraine conflict, the history of this conflict, Russian/Soviet imperialism, European-Russian relations
Brooke Harrington: economic sanctions and the Russian financial system, Russian oligarchs, financial markets and offshore banking, wealth and taxation, professional misconduct, social movements
Susannah Heschel: antisemitism, Judaism, Nazi Germany
Victoria K. Holt: public policy, diplomacy, peacekeeping, conflict prevention, counter-terrorism, international security
Jason Lyall: soldiers’ morale, military effectiveness, Russia, Afghanistan, international security, political violence, humanitarian assistance, research methods and ethics for conflict settings
Lynn Ellen Patyk: information warfare, terrorism and provocation, the Russian independent media
William C. Wohlforth: Russian foreign policy, U.S. – Russia relations, Cold War, international security, international relations, leadership, and grand strategy
Eng-Beng Lim: queer/transnational studies; queer pop culture; LGBTQIA issues; Asian American studies; ethnic studies; activism; diversity, equity, and inclusion
Melody Brown Burkins: Arctic science policy and diplomacy; global science and diplomacy, including sustainability, inclusion and gender equality initiatives
Luis F. Alvarez León: self-driving cars and geospatial data, economic geography, geographic information, geospatial technologies, critical GIS, information policy, digital economy
Soroush Vosoughi: social media analytics, machine learning, social cybersecurity, artificial intelligence
Jason Houle: student loan debt, household debt, foreclosure crisis, sociology of mental health
David G. Blanchflower: Brexit, economics of the U.K., statistics, labor economics, microeconomics and econometrics
Douglas Irwin: U.S. trade policy, globalization, U.S. trade with China, WTO
Joseph Bafumi: polling numbers, public opinion, America’s polarization
Randall Balmer: American religious history, faith in the presidency
Deborah Jordan Brooks: public opinion regarding female candidates, media and advertising in American politics
Linda L. Fowler: presidential primaries (especially N.H.), interest groups, campaign ethics
Michael C. Herron: election administration, ballot abnormalities and residual votes, government redistribution
Dean Lacy: elections, public opinion, political parties and interest groups
Russell Muirhead: political parties and ideology, democracy and politics
Annelise Orleck: ethnicity and immigration in American history, women in politics, history of women’s rights, workplace equality
Charles Wheelan: public policy, accessible economics, accessible statistics, U.S. protectionism
Kathryn Cottingham: aquatic ecology, food webs, invasive species, cyanobacterial blooms, nutrient cycling
Francis Magilligan: global water resources, human impacts on watersheds, flood hydrology
Andrew Campbell: ubiquitous computing, wireless networks, mobile computing
David F. Kotz: mobile healthcare (mHealth) technology, security and privacy, wireless networks